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NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1823, HIS MAJESTY'S SERVANTS WILL ACT THE OPERA OF THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE. ... AFTER WHICH, FOR THE SIXTH TIME, A SUPERB SPECTACLE IN TWO ACTS, WITH NEW MUSIC, SCENERY, DRESSES, AND CORRESPONDING DECORATIONS, CALL THE CHINESE SORCERER; OR, THE EMPEROR AND HIS THREE SONS [caption title]. by [China in England] - 1823
by [China in England]
NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1823, HIS MAJESTY'S SERVANTS WILL ACT THE OPERA OF THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE. ... AFTER WHICH, FOR THE SIXTH TIME, A SUPERB SPECTACLE IN TWO ACTS, WITH NEW MUSIC, SCENERY, DRESSES, AND CORRESPONDING DECORATIONS, CALL THE CHINESE SORCERER; OR, THE EMPEROR AND HIS THREE SONS [caption title].
by [China in England]
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[London: Drury Lane, 1823]. Broadside, approximately 13 x 7 inches, on blue paper. Uneven edges, light loss at lower edge (possibly from before impression), half-inch stain at lower edge, pencil mark at name of cast member, "Mr. Harley." Very good.
Bill of the play for the popular, long-running opera, THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE, featuring the celebrated tenor, John Braham, and the new, spectacular production, THE CHINESE SORCERER, written and produced by Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841). THE CHINESE SORCERER premiered at Drury Lane Easter Monday, March 31, 1823, and ran 23 nights. In his 1827 memoirs, Dibdin describes his authorship of the piece as a combined translation three successful recent French melodramas and the production "allowed to go to a very liberal expense, and the exercise of my own superintendence alone, even to the drilling of the soldiers and supernumeraries. ... [I]t experienced a brilliant reception as itself; and no spectacle ever boasted of all the glitter and slendour which wardrobes, property-rooms, or the gilder's pencil could supply." A scarce advertisment for one of the earliest large-scale depictions of China in Britain, recording both the beauty and wonder of the production (the "Grand Imperial Palace and Court of Kein Long," an enchanted valley, a necromantic tower, a cavern of spectres, and a feast of lanterns) and early efforts at yellowface humor (the valley is called "Lo-Lo," the tower "Hi-Hi," and characters' names include "Hi-Ho," "Chop-Stick," and "O-Me").
Bill of the play for the popular, long-running opera, THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE, featuring the celebrated tenor, John Braham, and the new, spectacular production, THE CHINESE SORCERER, written and produced by Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841). THE CHINESE SORCERER premiered at Drury Lane Easter Monday, March 31, 1823, and ran 23 nights. In his 1827 memoirs, Dibdin describes his authorship of the piece as a combined translation three successful recent French melodramas and the production "allowed to go to a very liberal expense, and the exercise of my own superintendence alone, even to the drilling of the soldiers and supernumeraries. ... [I]t experienced a brilliant reception as itself; and no spectacle ever boasted of all the glitter and slendour which wardrobes, property-rooms, or the gilder's pencil could supply." A scarce advertisment for one of the earliest large-scale depictions of China in Britain, recording both the beauty and wonder of the production (the "Grand Imperial Palace and Court of Kein Long," an enchanted valley, a necromantic tower, a cavern of spectres, and a feast of lanterns) and early efforts at yellowface humor (the valley is called "Lo-Lo," the tower "Hi-Hi," and characters' names include "Hi-Ho," "Chop-Stick," and "O-Me").
- Seller W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera (US)
- Format/Binding Broadside
- Book Condition Used - Very good
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Drury Lane
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1823
- Keywords performing arts, theater, drama, opera, English literature, China, ephemera, broadside